All things related to multicast

[Tim Ward <>]

Quoting Peter John Hill 
():
> Totally been there and done that. We just got everything stable a few 
> weeks ago. Give me a call if you want to discuss it
...
> We are using auto-rp with anycast and sparse mode. It is #10 as 
> described in:
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/iosw/tech/rppim_rg.htm

When we were rolling out multicast to all of our dorms for our dorm
TV system, we were seeing odd 60 second dropouts.  We had at the time
Auto-RP and PIM Sparse.  The scoop from the TAC on the problem is that
Auto-RP relied on PIM Dense for the auto-RP to work, and that you had
to configure for PIM Sparse Dense mode if you were using auto-rp. 
(the heavily distilled version).

Does this jive with everyone else's experience?

We were halfway to PIM-Sparse BSR and migrating to anycast rp so I
didn't think much of it at the time.  But looking at the comments above
made me wonder.